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Another member of the Milwaukee Police Department has been charged with allegedly misusing the department's license plate camera reader system.

Milwaukee Police Detective Tehrangi Chapman was charged Wednesday with misconduct in public office --- a felony --- and misuse of a GPS device.

A criminal complaint said Chapman, a detective assigned to the internal affairs division, admitted to using the Flock camera system 20 times to "track the whereabouts" of two people. That was, "in violation of the policies of the Milwaukee Police Department," the complaint said.

The license plate reader came

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office swarmed a car they believed was stolen, drawing their guns and handcuffing two men that were inside. However, they soon realized they made a mistake - it was the wrong car, and the two men weren't suspects.

It was in the early evening on Aug. 3 in a quiet Cypress neighborhood when Anthony and Julian, both 19 years old, just got back from a gas station. Anthony was about to leave in his Camaro when out of nowhere, deputies cornered his car. Doorbell footage from neighbors shows at least five patrol cars and the sound of

(KAKE) - In all the hubbub over the design of the new license plates there's been little talk of the fact that Kansas is moving from six digit license plate numbers to seven. And there's a very good reason for that change.

"It was sleeting that day, it was a really nasty October," Matthew Spurlock said.

"It was bad," his wife, Leah, added.

"I'm like, 'How many times are we going to get pulled over on the turnpike? On our knees, handcuffed, in the sleet,' you know?"

Matthew and Leah Spurlock have owned the same minivan for years, with no problems. They've got a special KU Alumni plate with

A Sedgwick, Kansas, police chief used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles 228 times over four-plus months and used his police vehicle to follow them out of town, according to a city official and a report released this week by the agency that oversees police certifications.

Lee Nygaard admitted to misusing Flock while he was being investigated for an unrelated misconduct case, a Sedgwick official said. He then resigned.

The license plate readers alert officers of specific license plates and vehicle types they might be looking for. Pol

SANTA ANA, Calif. --  A former Costa Mesa police officer pleaded guilty to contacting his mistress thousands of times through text, telephone calls, and social media messages, sometimes more than 100 times in a day, over nine months and used confidential law enforcement databases to track her whereabouts, the whereabouts of her romantic partners and the whereabouts of his own wife. The former police officer also admitted violating a restraining order by driving by the woman's house after he was served with a restraining order and given a notice he was to be fired from the Costa Mesa Police Dep